Middle ear

I snap my fingers and the air around me shifts then vibrates. When the air vibrates, it creates a sound wave. Our ears pick up this wave and translates it so we can understand and comprehend what amazing intangible creation is before us. A middle C key is pushed on a piano, the hammer hits the tuned wire, the wire vibrates and creates the sound humans recognize as a simple C. As time has passed, humans have progressed from single note instruments, to handwriting sheet music for orchestras, to…

conductive hearing loss. A conductive hearing loss is due to dysfunction of either the outer or middle ear. To understand an individual’s beliefs, feelings, and values a little bit better, I walked in their shoes for two days. I was able to experience some hardships that are a challenge for a person with a conductive hearing loss would face every day. On the first day, I wore an earplug in only one ear for six…

“According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention at least 17.1 million people report dual sensory impairment (paragraph 1, page 243).” What is dual sensory impairment, well it 's the impairment if both vision and hearing. It is most prevalent in adults older than 70 years. So most of the experimental research conducted, the participants where of age 70 years or older with vision impairment, vision loss or dual sensory impairment. There are several known causes for vision impairment…

Do you ever hear your ears ring? Are they ringing now? If your answer is yes to either of those questions, then maybe you should take another look at the intensity of the volumes around you on a regular basis. If your answer was no, then your ears are probably very healthy. However, If you want to stay healthy or you’re trying to preserve what little hearing you have left, you may want to read the rest of this paper. Most people, mainly teenagers, with hearing loss are unaware of the damage…

Listening- Definition - " to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear." (Listening, n.d.) Example - I am from Washington State and in Seattle, Washington there is a street market called Pike 's Place. Inside Pike 's Place, right up front is a fish market where the employee 's behind the counter will throw large fish at the employee standing outside the display case to interact with the visiting public, sometimes to just throw back and forth, but other…

Before embarking on my soundwalk, I had a few basic expectations of sounds I would encounter, mostly based on prior memories of wandering MIT’s campus. I knew what the soft, low murmurs should sound like when traversing the corridors. I knew to expect the clip-clop of hard stepping walkers in the silent tunnels, and the high pitched buzzing and whining of electrical components overhead. Outside, the wind would make soft, mid pitched whuuu and shhh noises, which would serve as background for…

The engineer is trying to recreate the human ears. There are two basic stereo mic setups, X-Y and ORTF. The X-Y setup is taking both mics and crossing them at 90 degrees. This ensures that everything in front of and to the outside of the mics are picked up. The beauty of miking this way is there is…

Although the 3-D printing industry did not see much growth in the first twenty years of its existence, the recently rapid development of the technology has led to breakthroughs within the field of medicine. Old fashioned and impersonal prosthetics are slowly being replaced by custom, innovative replacements. The 3-D printer is an incredibly efficient tool that doctors have begun using to create personalized solutions for problems that the medical field previously had no solutions for. Johnson…

Isaiah Stark, Period 1, Ear impairment due to loud music Slogan-Whoa, turn it down!!! Description of health issue-The tiny hair cells in your ear change sound into electrical signals that are carried to the brain and documented as sound. After long periods of time listing to any type of sound over 70 decibels (dB)(the unit sound is measured in) can harm your ears. When people listen to music your ears are taking in incredible amounts of sound. That Is why in schools you think that kids are just…

especially with those ears. Yep, Fledge was special and so was his ears. Compared to other bunnies, his ears were a smidgen bigger than extra-large. Fledge was like many young rabbits. He enjoyed exploring the forest and sitting on rocks listening. With those specially sized ears, he could hear extra well. Fledge was even able to hear the sound of grass growing, the footsteps of a bird and the flapping of a bee's wings. Fledge did enjoy listening but did not enjoy his ears. Almost every day, he…